Zhao Yucheng still remembered that the quarantine officials mentioned it when they sent information to the peasant army.

They said that Shao Hongyuan and Qi Fang were in conflict, and the two sides had conflicts. Shao Hongyuan wanted to fight, but Qi Fang did not want to fight, which led to Shao Hongyuan's solitary advancement and defeating many times.

Qi Fang didn't plan to work sincerely with Shao Hongyuan at all, and the two of them had many conflicts.

According to the report of the secret spies lurking in the Song army, Feng Shixing arrived as a military supervisor and joined forces with Shao Hongyuan to attack Qi. He quickly seized Qi's handle, took Qi's side, dismissed his post, and quickly sent him to Lin'an to convict, causing the established facts.

Then Qi Fang's hardcore confidants were also beaten by Shao Hongyuan, quickly disarmed and captured.

The remaining tens of thousands of troops were headless, which was very chaotic, but they were very dissatisfied with Shao Hongyuan, who played the role of a black-faced person, and there were vague signs of doing something to target Shao Hongyuan.

At this time, Feng Shixing stood up to calm the people, announced Qi Fang's guilt, and made a public commitment, deciding to only offend Qi Fang and his main confidants, not the entire army.

So Qi Fang's old subordinates did not cause trouble, but chose to accept Feng Shixing's instructions.

In their opinion, at least Feng Shixing represents the Central Privy Council, whether he is a civil servant or a top scholar among the Jinshi, he has natural attributes to suppress these big-headed soldiers and rule them with natural right.

The amblyopia of the Datou soldiers for the central Jinshi civil servants was created by the Song Dynasty's court over the past few hundred years, not to mention that Feng Shixing was the top scholar. Most of the Datou soldiers came from the people, and out of the folk worship of the [Wenquxing], they of course also had similar worship plots.

After entering the army, this plot will also be brought into the army.

At present, it is this group of big-headed soldiers who are afraid of Feng Shixing, the civil servant of the Central Privy Council, who is the top scholar, and dare not fight against him.

They listened to whatever Feng Shixing said, and they believed it without any punishment. So the army gained initial stability and Shao Hongyuan was able to control the army with Feng Shixing's support.

Without Feng Shixing's appearance and statement, it would be too difficult to do this by relying on Shao Hongyuan alone and it would easily lead to civil strife in the army.

Not to mention that he was defeated twice in the peasant army, for now, he had no prestige at all.

Feng Shixing and Shao Hongyuan originally planned to slowly reorganize the army and break up Qi Fang's old subordinates to reorganize them so that they can direct command and reduce possible troubles in the future. However, Feng Shixing suddenly died of illness and the matter of rectifying the army suddenly stopped, so an embarrassing situation was born.

Shao Hongyuan was the only one who was the leader in the Song army.

Among the 50,000 or 60,000 Song troops, most of them were Qi Fang's old subordinates, and Shao Hongyuan's confidant subordinates were only a few thousand, which belonged to a minority and could not represent the vast majority of Song soldiers.

In other words, the Song army is actually unstable and uneven at present.

After some analysis, Zhao Yucheng found his deputy Du Qi, discussed with him, and analyzed the factional conflicts within the Song army, so the two quickly reached a consensus.

Zhao Yucheng decided to spread rumors among the Song army that Shao Hongyuan did not actually intend to let Qi Fang go.

The reason why he said this before was just a temporary solution, to stabilize people's hearts and to plan what happened later.

In fact, Shao Hongyuan hated Qi Fang for killing thousands of his subordinates and defeating many times. Although Qi Fang has fallen, Qi Fang's subordinates are also a group of people who directly cause Shao Hongyuan to suffer losses, and they are also guilty.

Shao Hongyuan did not intend to let anyone go. Not only did he want to offend these people, but he also had to use the war to let them enter the mountains one by one and die.

In fact, Shao Hongyuan was not sure that he could defeat the peasant army in Luoxiao Mountain. He just wanted to use the lives of tens of thousands of people to exchange for his victory and make up for the losses he suffered before.

And if he wins, then Qi Fang's old subordinate who was lucky enough to survive after the war will be cleansed by him and will not be commended at all, but will only be killed by him for various reasons.

Because he is the chief general, he has this power, and he will use it to make full use of the power to turn the army into his personal belongings.

After Zhao Yucheng compiled this rumor, he felt that this was one of the possible means for Shao Hongyuan.

The Song army was filled with disputes between factions, regions, political tendencies, and other disputes. The two armies that were still in hostile relations suddenly merged into one, which would inevitably lead to great problems.

If the two generals are in conflict, there will inevitably be collisions and struggles between the army, and they will become opponents of each other. The hatred of the real enemy may not be as strong as that of the opponent.

There was no instructor in the Song army who could teach everyone to put aside regional disputes and take class as the program. Everyone was suffering and should unite to fight against the superiors.

Based on this, the Ming army had a complete set of systematic ideological methodologies that could bridge the gap between soldiers from different regions, allowing them to quickly form mutual trust, form strong coordination and organization, and thus improve combat effectiveness.

At least within the Ming army group, everyone has a common identity, and the Luoxiaoshan Peasant Army, which belongs to the Ming army branch, naturally has such an identity.

However, there is no such precious identification in the Song army, so the Song army is destined to be unable to unite and become absolute combat power.

Therefore, it is absolutely feasible to use this method of attacking the heart against the Song army.

While Zhao Yucheng launched a strategy to attack the heart, Shao Hongyuan was also having a headache over Feng Shixing's death.

Originally, Feng Shi was responsible for sharing the pressure of commanding the army and sheltering him from the wind and rain. He could successfully complete the reorganization and reorganization of the army. After all, as a long-time general, he still has this ability.

However, Feng Shixing died of illness once, and the military situation that had just stabilized began to become a little turbulent again. Shao Hongyuan could clearly feel the change in the atmosphere in the army, those hostile and suspicious eyes.

This made him very uncomfortable, so he naturally mobilized his army to the surrounding area of ​​his chief general's tent, so that he could feel a little safe.

Then he tried to stabilize the hearts of the people by rewarding them, rewarding some military expenditure to the army, and spending a wave of money, which was considered to have barely overcome the first difficulty.

But the difficulties he faces are far from over.

I don’t know when a rumor began to circulate in the Song army’s barracks.

Regarding the matter of Shao Hongyuan preparing to use the war to complete the cleaning of Qi's old subordinates.

The rumors said everything was full of slightness, saying that Shao Hongyuan had always been resentful of Qi Fang's failure to send troops to help him suppress the bandits, causing him to lose troops, so he always planned to take revenge on Qi Fang. Now Qi Fang has solved it, but Qi Fang's accomplices have not been solved yet.

The so-called accomplices are of course their unlucky big-headed soldiers and middle- and low-level officers. Shao Hongyuan believes that they are also supporters of Qi Fang and are not trustworthy, so he is trying every means to solve all of them to relieve his hatred.

The specific method is to use them to launch an attack on Luoxiao Mountain. As we all know, Luoxiao Mountain is so huge that 50,000 or 60,000 troops were scattered into it like sprinkling a handful of salt into Poyang Lake.

Shao Hongyuan himself knew about such a completely impossible thing to succeed, but he knew better that this matter would only benefit him and not harm him.

Not only can he deal with the bandit army, but he can also consume the old subordinates of Qi and exchange the blood of the bandit army and Qi's old subordinates for his own glory and wealth.

This is his wishful thinking.

Even the rumors vaguely linked him to Feng Shixing's death, saying that Feng Shixing had just arrived in the military camp for a while, and even if he died of illness, he would not die so quickly. There must be something tricky about it.

Who caused Feng Shixing to die of illness so quickly?
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